Overcoming the Dangers of Environmental Neo-Malthusianism and the Errors of Degrowth Ideology

How socialism can both remove the fetters on production capitalist social relations present and overcome capitalism as a 'system of waste'.

In the early days of covid confinement, videos would surface of animals freely roaming beyond their usual domains and waters whose colors were previously hidden by waste now clear. In many people these videos stimulated feelings of great joy, mother nature, according to them, was now ‘healing’. Although this sentiment might appear to be based on an affinity with nature, we must look beyond and behind the appearance and question whether this sudden love of nature is, as Max Scheler would say, a “trump card against a hated thing,”^[1]i.e., we must examine whether the love of the mother is a resentful inversion of a hate for the brother.